Where, how, and when do Indian consumers access services or products in their own language? What are the business drivers that hinder or make this possible? Continue reading
Real-time terminology assistance for simultaneous interpreters may be well on its way — but will it be truly useful in typical high-stakes environments? Continue reading
The State of Neural Machine Translation for Asian Languages
Asian languages present unique challenges for NMT researchers, and a key to unlock emerging economies for providers. How far along is NMT for Asian languages? Continue reading
Language Industry Hires at Amplexor, InWhatLanguage, Pole To Win, and SeproTec
Amplexor adds three new Vice Presidents; InWhatLanguage also appoints a new VP; Pole To Win names a Director of Translation; and SeproTec hires a BDM. Continue reading
RWS’ Market Cap Just Hit USD 2 Billion
Double-digit revenue growth and 24% boost in profitability propel market cap of RWS past USD 2 billion dollar mark. Linguistic validation and localization shine. Continue reading
Alon Lavie Joins Unbabel — He’s Not the Only Exec Who Recently Left Amazon’s Machine Translation Group
Unbabel hires Amazon’s former Machine Translation Group Manager, Alon Lavie, as VP of Language Technologies; Lavie’s former business partner leaves Amazon for Uber. Continue reading
Shares in Media Localizer ZOO Digital Under Pressure Again After Earnings Report
Despite buoyant end-markets, media localizer ZOO Digital reports flat revenues and break-even profitability for the year. Continue reading
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Toptranslation CEO: ‘The Future Belongs to Tech-driven Language Service Providers’
The three success factors for Language Service Providers processing growing volumes of digital text in smaller batches and with shorter turnaround times. Continue reading
Rozetta’s Market Cap Nears USD 400m as Bet on Machine Translation Pays Off
Japanese LSP enters period of “rapid growth” for MT segment. Revenue and operating income up strongly. Shares rally, propelling market cap to nearly USD 400m. Continue reading
Behold, the Translatotron! Google’s Latest Move in Speech Translation
Google researchers approach speech-to-speech translation a little differently in a proof-of-concept that completely takes away reference text, but underperforms compared to existing models. Continue reading
Media Localizer Lylo Acquires Italian Dubbing Studio
Paris-based media localizer Lylo acquires Italy’s Studio PV. Says Italy key growth market for dubbing and discusses hard-to-resource language combinations. Continue reading
Automated Transcription Provider Trint Secures USD 4.5m in Series A
AI-based transcription provider Trint has increased its total funding raised to USD 7.8m, with the unique twist of adding NMT into its platform to allow multilingual content distribution. Continue reading
TransPerfect Files Multimillion-dollar Lawsuit Against Lionbridge, H.I.G. Capital
Court battles loom as TransPerfect files lawsuit against Lionbridge over alleged misuse of confidential information obtained during 2017 court-imposed sale process. Continue reading
Danish Police Urges Calm as Row Over Interpreting Contract Intensifies
EasyTranslate points to 95% delivery rate amid complaints that interpreters were no-shows in a Danish court, a police station, and at driving schools. Continue reading
Spain’s AT Language Solutions Buys Domestic Rival AABAM
When told that someone wanted to buy her business, AABAM’s founder thought it was a vendor cold call. But AT Language Solutions’ offer was genuine and she ended up selling. Continue reading
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